Snow!

Quote of the Day:
"Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting." - Napoleon Hill

I did get up 15 minutes earlier than I would on a normal work day, and despite some shoveling and slower driving I got here at about the same time I usually do. How is it that I'm here but most of my coworkers aren't (and I live the second furthest away)? Granted, I don't have kids to get up and out of the house which would be an added complication for some. Our parking lot is empty since folks are trying to pack themselves into the garage, and the clear snow-covered world looks so much prettier when you're not out driving in it.

There was lots of Arisia prep this weekend, including a run through of our ball performances (which will be very silly). In less than a week this will all be over, and I'm looking forward to getting back to normal life again.

Evil cupcakes!

Oprah's Favorite Things show (before Xmas) featured these crazy expensive cupcakes from Williams-Sonoma - $59 for a box of 9 (or $6.66 per cupcake). A vendor gave a box to a coworker of mine and I have one sitting on my desk to try for later. This is cool, because I was curious how good a cupcake had to be to make it onto Oprah's favorite things list, but there was no way I was ordering $60 worth of cupcakes. :)

Which reminds me, I still haven't checked out http://www.johnnycupcakes.com/ . I'm not a huge fan of sweets generally (though I could sit and eat cheese all day) but I love checking out *really good* chocolates or baked goods, make the calories worth it and all of that! I need another clever t-shirt like I need another hole in the head, but I love their designs (a woman at the studio wore one of the Boston Celtic's logo inspired one a couple of weeks ago).

Weird Fact of the Day: Bunny Bums

Rabbits have very odd digestive systems - you can see something about it here if you're curious: http://www.bio.miami.edu/hare/poop.html . At a high level, they poop out these things called cecotropes which they then eat for their nutritional qualities. Its a totally normal process and usually people don't see the cecotropes unless something is up with their diet.

I've been buying pellets in bulk for them from a local place and the quality and cost has been excellent ($0.34 a pound) but they've recently changed their supplier. It took me a week or so to figure out why, but I'm sure this new food is to blame for the cecotropes I've been seeing in their cage! The last two days I've only fed them timothy and I haven't seen any cecotropes, so its totally a case of the food switch. I'm picking some new food up after work so that my buns can get themselves back to normal (mostly because I don't want them to have the lost nutrition, and secondly because I don't want to freak out our poor petsitter Devina this coming weekend.